Slackpacking trail Beachcomber's Perlemoen Trail can be done in sections as a 2, 3, and/ or 4 day slack-packingadventure (no heavy pack to carry) which includes 4 star accommodation and all meals (also self-catering options). You can choose from different packages depending on your preference and pocket Read more.....

Turn your hike into an adventure

It's essential to go with the right guide. Some hiking trail facilitators use inexperienced unqualified guides

An interpreted and informed hike makes the difference between a hike and an adventure. Our country and certainly this coastline is filled with stories and secrets that you would never know without a guide with intimate knowledge and experience of the area.

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Not an ordinary hiking trail

Trails are tailored to your specific interests and needs and will at all times be in harmony with the natural environment so that we leave only our footprints. Trail Video link

Group sizes are kept small so that the hike remains intimate with minimal environmental impact.I am passionate about this area's marine ecology and always happy to share and demonstrate the uniqueness of the environment.I learn something new every time i am out there which adds value to the group and the experience.

The yellow sea spider is not a true spider,but has similar characteristics, sometimes found hunting and feeding on prey with its pincer-like appendages (chelifers) they have four pairs of legs with claw-like ends used to hold on in strong currents, other slender ovigerous legs hang below the head which the male uses to carry fertilised eggs.

The unmistakable Columbus crab on the left, a pelagic species identified by Christopher Columbus during his first voyage to the New World. The blue colour hides the animal from predators and prey in the deep ocean. On the right believed to be the same crab in its megalopa larval stage.

About your guide Jason Stonehewer

I am a qualified F.G.A.S.A.nature guide, studying coastal ecology and our fascinating interconnected natural world.From 2012 to 2014 i was lead guide on the Perlemoen Trail, I started my guiding career guiding river rafting trips in 1994 for Felix Unite.In August 2014 I received the mayors award for excellence for setting up a marine kiosk in Pearly Beach and my contribution to environmental awareness. I am chairman of the Pearly Beachconservancy and take part in volunteer environmental educational work for the Vision Foundation lecturing in some of the more remote destinations in Southern Africa.

Nature guiding and studying our amazing inter-coastal marine environment is a dream come true for me and it gives me great joy to share this with others.

The sea swallow is a nudibranch a sea slug that has lost its shell. They float on the surface tension of the ocean hunting blue bottles, the sea swallows defence against predators is to secret toxic chemicals reusing stinging cells derived from their own prey. Washed up by onshore winds along with many other pelagic species we encounter.